Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes
We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Letter to Leopold Mozart, 24 Oct. 1777. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, translated by Emily Anderson, W. W. Norton & Company, 1985.
Although much opposition to education comes from religious groups, it is noteworthy that the Lutheran founder saw education per se as an weapon against the Devil and that view was promulgated in Colonial America. This particular quotation was used by Cotton Mather of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in his treatise on the importance of education. See also {612014}
This means that a little learning both excites and stupefies us, while extensive learning – "drinking largely" of the spring, a mythological fountain sacred to the Muses – makes us serious and wise.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
